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A Totally Redundant & Virtualized Infrastructure Solution (75.28 KB)
Winchester System’s v-IP Storage Appliances provide a set of robust features that allow Winchester System’s ultra fast, hardware centric FlashDisk RAID arrays to also be configured with complete redundancy, including snapshots, mirroring and remote replication. v-IP positions and FlashDisk provides a very affordable and much lowe r cost alternative to Dell Equallogic, Netapp, and other storage vendors while maintaining simplicity and performance.

High Speed RAID 6 (200.47 KB)
FlashDisk with “High Speed RAID 6” is a disk array that uses today’s “enterprise class” Fibre Channel, SAS or SATA disk drives, protects against two drive failures and ensures the successful completion of rebuilds by providing RAID 5 protection after a single disk drive failure – and does so at high speed. Thus, “High Speed RAID 6” offers vastly superior protection from permanent data loss – increasing the MTDL (mean time to data loss) by 2 to 4 orders of magnitude. While simple in concept, “High Speed RAID 6” is not yet available from most major commercial storage vendors.

Red Hat High Availability Clusters (102.22 KB)
Almost all core business applications—ERP, CRM, sales force automation, inventory, supply chain management—can benefit from high availability clustering. The attractive economics of Linux high availability clusters combined with the low cost of high performance RAID storage makes it possible to extend high availability to a broader set of business activities. Even email servers, for example, could be clustered for high availability in organizations where email has become a critical tool and a shutdown would be very disruptive. Similarly enterprises can benefit when domain services, directory services, security systems, e-commerce servers, and even standard file servers are clustered for high availability.